This image released by The Weinstein Company shows author J.D. Salinger, left, after the Normandy invasion with his fellow counterintelligence officers from the film 'Salinger.'

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Claudia Puig
USA TODAY

Insightful gems are unearthed throughout the flawed but engrossing Salinger, a much-anticipated documentary about the author of The Catcher in the Rye.

The film isn't as incisive as J.D. Salinger might have preferred. And the reclusive writer, whose credo was all about not selling out, probably would have recoiled from one breathless swath that feels like an infomercial for his upcoming posthumous books.